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In 1957-58 the film ‘The Bridge on the River Kwai‘ was ground breaking. It was remarkable for being mainly shot on location (in Ceylon not Thailand) rather than in a studio and for involving the construction and demolition of a real, fully functioning rail bridge. It's still regarded by many as one of the finest movies ever made.
One of the things a tourist to Bangkok is encouraged to do is to take a day trip to the actual bridge.
On the occasion of an afternoon tea to mark this significant milestone...
| When I was one, I was just begun; When I was two, I was nearly new; When I was Three, I was hardly me; * * * But then I was sixty, and as clever as clever; Wouldn't it be nice to stay sixty for ever and ever? (With apologies to AA Milne) |
Hang on! Now I'm seventy? How did that happen?
Social Media taps into that fundamental human need to gossip. Indeed some anthropologists attribute the development of our large and complex brains to imagination, story telling and persuasion. Thus the 'Cloud' is a like a cumulonimbus in which a hail of imaginative nonsense, misinformation and 'false news' circulates before falling to earth to smash someone's window or dent their car: or ending in tears of another sort; or simply evaporating.
Among this nonsense are many conspiracy theories.
For example, at the moment, we are told by some that the new 5G mobile network has, variously, caused the Coronavirus pandemic or is wilting trees, despite not yet being installed where the trees have allegedly wilted, presumably in anticipation. Of more concern is the claim by some that the Covid-19 virus was deliberately manufactured in a laboratory somewhere and released in China.